Thursday, April 24, 2014

Reflective Post

Final Post



        Technology is something that no matter what corner of the world you go to you will find it. It is use in school and at home of every student in very high percentages. It is very important for the teachers to learn technology skills in order to teach this digital generation that is growing up. My experience in  EME 2040 was something that I have not experience in any of my other  classes in high school and even college.
I was introduced to new things and had my eyes opened to the technology world and found out more than I thought was out there. At the beginning of this class if you were to ask me if I think technology plays an important role in education I would probably answered no. This class allowed me to experience technology and learn different methods of using technology in my future classrooms. With website like De.li.cious, I learned new ways to save my favorite website and access them anywhere online. 
The projects we did in class, the wiki , e porfolio, webquest and PowerPoint will be very beneficial to my teaching career.



At the end of it all I was able to have hands on experience with educational media, emerging technologies, hardware, soft ware. My eyes were more open to the legal and ethical issues that might arises with technology and how to avoid them. Every time I step into class I learned something new, that’s how every class should be. Due my short attention span staying focus throughout a whole two hours and forty minute class would have not been easy but with this class I did better than any of my other classes. The only thing I would change about this class would be to add more hands on technology into the lessons and add more activities that involve us moving and being active. Other than that, I had a great experience.!

Resources

Hamilton, P. (Director). (2012). Technology in Education : YouTube.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Journal Post #11

How can teachers use digital porfolios as tools for learning?

Digital teaching porfolio is a collection of educational and professional materials that are stored in electronic format. Its a collection of material that shows what teacher have done and growth through out their career overtime. Beginning to build a digital teaching porfolio as soon as you start taking education courses is a way to keep all the activities and ideas from classes. As ta teacher begin to teach they can continue to add and build their digital portfolio. They can allow parent and student the chance to know get to know them through the digital portfolio and what their learning style is. The parents and student can have a better understanding of who is teaching them or teaching their kids. 


Tech Tool- TaskStream

TaskStream one of many ePortfolio and assessment solution. Students and teachers are able to collect their work and publish an electronic portfolio that provides actual evidence of achievement for students, as well as an assessment tool for later on in their career.


Summary and Connection 

This chapter focused on engaging students in performance assessment and reflective learning. It disscussed how to get students involve in their own learning and curricullum. By doing that the students are not only more involve but they also know what is required of them. By having something such as a rubric can guide a student to fully understand what work deserve a 10 out of 10 compare to a 3 out of 10. I did not use to bother to look at rubrics, but after a teacher brought up the topic in class on how important it is to know what you are being graded on. I try to make it a point to look back on every rubric after every assignment, if one is provided for me.  


Resources

https://www1.taskstream.com

Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010).Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Journal Post #10

Focus Question- How can teachers use technology to create technology to create universal designed classrooms? 


Teachers can come up with multiples means of presentation to give learners various ways to to be engage in a lesson. It is simple as using a PowerPoint to display a vocabulary on the board for students . Computer  technology allows what could of never been before possible implementations of universal design in the classrooms. A universal designed classroom give students multiple means of presentation, expression and engagement. 


Tech Tool- Calculator 


Sometimes with a low budget classroom it’s very hard to provide all the necessities or equipment such as calculators for the whole class. Web 2.0 Calc is a free online scientific calculator that can be embedded on your website or blog. Therefore if student or teacher can’t provide a scientific calculator, which can be expensive, it is provided for them. The size of the calculator screen expands on an iPad so younger students can touch and access it easily.

Summary and Connection


This chapter touches base on how all students can find success through technology, students with different background, cultures, and experiences. Coming from a background of low income if was not for the classroom computer I do not think I would of known what a computer even was. Technology creates a universal design for me that allow me to have multiples mean of presentation, expression and engagement.  With that being capable because of technology I can see how technology  can romotes success for all different type of students. 

Resources 

http://web2.0calc.com/